These are some samples of a set of stunning landscape photographs out west by the photographer Jesse Chehak. The Morning News has an interview with Chehak, who is someone I didn't know about until coming across their slideshow. Go there for larger, more vibrant versions of the reduced-size images sampled below. I'm taken by the Primm, NV, one the most. Something about the modern clash of color and mountain and angles and fabrication amidst/against the scale of sky. There's also a lot to be said about the Rio Blanco one, with the dead deer in front of the fenceline, in the foreground against the background's only-barely-visible highway.
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Very Frederick Edwin Church or Thomas Moran, American sublime landscape 19th century. The thing that gets me about the Nevada one is the way Nature dwarfs the works of man.
I don't think that's a deer, in the Colorado photo -- that looks like a pronghorn antelope to me.